... uncountable time and money!

One of the biggest advantages is that it drives support for standards:

If you sell a phone wihtout a USB cable. or supply USB cables without knowing which brand it will be used with,

You bloody well better comply with standards!

A way to sell your soul to the devil without having to use Google Maps to find a crossroad?

Does Windows really freak people out to that degree?

Glad I use Linux!

We want robots that can dance to the Contours!

for the right to be lied to!

And not just the by the right.

You aren't screwing podcasters. You're screwing artists who could be using podcasts to help promote their music

The directors of (UMG) should be in jail for crime against humanity!

And no ... jailing their bots is not a good solution.

If a company commits a crime, the directors* should go to jail.

* "C suite" for Americans.

... Their ongoing buzzword scenario makes them look extremely stupid.

... I can bin the TV, and use a decent monitor on my PC instead?

Its pretty clear that broadcast TV has no future - bits or no bits.

You were hoping for Artificial Intelligence.

What you got was Alienating Incompetence.

(A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse).

No one has "Given Up" on Mercator who actually has to use a map for navigation.

Mercator gets the angles right - essential for arriving where you want to go.

In reality: the world is a globe.

depending on the content.

I often use 75% speed when listening to foreign language videos.

However, as other have already said, pointless blathering is a major problem. I find the best solution to that is to skip to the next video. Blathering at 150% speed is still blathering.

If you store someone else's data, you should ask what should happen to it if they die (or cancel their contract).

Then you should do what they said.

If the customer and supplier are in different countries, then the presumption should be that the Client's country legal system applies.
In all cases, with no option for the customer to be bullied out of this by large companies.

If AI is used, the search tool to show "dangerously wrong" in its answers.

Once something is found, you can't unfound it.

You obviously believe in reality. Therefore you are "woke" and everything you say must be ignored!